Author: SAUNDERS, RICHARD; [FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN]
Title: Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, 1964. Hardcover. The American founder's legendary work in special Heritage Press reprint edition. With the pseudonym of Mr. Franklin (Richard Saunders) represented on title page. Includes illustrations in both color and black & white by Norman Rockwell, and with an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. With translations of foreign aphorisms and end notes at rear of volume. --- A sizeable quarto, about 12 inches tall. In tan buckram covers w/blindstamped signs of the Zodiac pattern on cover; gilt-stamped titling on spine. Sandglass flyer is not present. --- A bright, firm, complete copy but with slight binder's glue bleed-through at front and rear hinges. Very Good+ slipcase with light scuffing; is structurally sound. ; Quarto (11 to 13 in. tall); xiii, 300 pages. Near Fine .

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